Burial-casket hardware.



M. P. DAVORAN.

BURIAL GASKET HARDWARE. APPLIOATIOIf FILED JANA, 1912.

1,027,106. Pa tented May 21, 1912.

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WITNESSES;

ATTORNEY.

cnLuMmA FLANUGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, w. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL E. IDAVORAN, OIE CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIG-NOR TO THE CRANE &; BREED MANUFACTURING. COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BURIAL-CASKET HARDWARE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1912.

To all whom it may conccrm I Be it known that I, MICHAEL F. DAVORAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Burial-Casket Hardware, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hardware espe oially adapted for use on the surface of burial-caskets, or, more particularly, to the name-plates and handle lugs used on such receptacles, and its object is to provide a name-plate and a handle-lug with a series of slits or perforations that have between them bars or gratings that adapt the device to the interlacing of a ribbon, or like flexible material that harmonizes in color with that of the metal or material composing said name-plate and handle-lug and imparts a pleasing and softening efiect, as fully hereinafter described in detail and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a name-plate for a burial-casket showing my invention in one of its preferred forms and Fig. 2 is a cross=section taken on the dotted-line a, a, of Fig. 1.

1 indicates the body portion of a nameplate for the desired inscription. v

2 indicates the base portion; 3, 3 the opposite ends that form side columns or panels on said body portion and base portion; 4, 4 shield-heads surmounting the upper ends of said side columns; and 5 an arched portion surmounting said body portion and terminating at said side shield-heads. 6 indicates a central shield or key-stone member in said arched portion 5. 7 indicates each one of a series of parallel, spaced bars forming a gratingalong the arched portion 5 between said central key-stone member and said shield-head members.

8 indicates a flexible strip shown in Fig. l as being interlaced through the slits or elongated perforations between the bars 7 of the grating 5, and preferably with its opposite ends extending and draping beyond the shield-heads 4, 4, as shown at 9, 9. Of

course, said draping-ends 9 can be omitted and the strip or ribbon 8 terminate at any suitable point back of the shield-heads 4. Instead of using the said draping-ends 9, suitable tass'els can be used for the handlelugs on the side of the casket and attached at the opposite ends of said strip or ribbon 8 so that'they shall gracefully hang. The ribbon or strip 8 is adapted to be of any suitable hue or color and it is intended that such hue or color shall correspond or harmonize, or even contrast with that of the metal composing the name-plate or the handle-lug. It is obvious that unlimited fancy or choice can be duly met in the varietyof combinations of colors of ribbon and metal towhich my invention is adapted. The ribbon or strip may be either flexible so as to duly interlace through the perforations or the grating, or it may be a stiff one adapted to beplaced back of the grating and not interlaced at all, but the effect of the stiff one would not be as good as that of the flexible form that has a more please ing and softening effect, and does not otherwise unduly ornament the casket. The ribbon or strip can be drawn taut to impart a smooth or plain efi'ect, or it may be inserted and left somewhat loose and puffy by having it a little wider than the width of the slits or perforations and th'erebyimpart apurled effect that is shown in front elevation in Fig. 1 and in cross-section in Fig. 2.

Instead of interlacing the ribbon just as shown, it may be passed between alternate single bars, or three successive bars could be hidden and then buta single bar displayed, so as to expose more or less of the ribbon or more or less of the bars as desired.

I claim A burial-casket name-plate or handle-lug having a grating or perforated part and a ribbon, tape or like textile fabric adapted to be placed back of or interlaced through said grating or perforated part.

MICHAEL F. DAVORAN. .Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS J ONES, HERBERT S. BRIDGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtainedrfor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0., 

